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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbour clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Fatmisia
Incest
Alcoholism
Infertility mentioned
Physical injury
Death of a child
Murder
Car accident
Animal death
Animal cruelty

Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four years old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England, she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary’s hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbour is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary–a woman who harbours secret desires and finds it diffic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical & verbal domestic abuse
Suicidal ideation
Infertility

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

There’s only been one time that Rose couldn’t stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Sexual assault of a child
Child abuse
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Infertility
Death of a parent

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magi… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incest mentioned
Depression
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Suicidal ideation
Infertility
Pregnancy
Miscarriage
Blood & gore depiction
Amputation
Grief & loss depiction
Murder
Beheading
Imprisonment
Torture
Fire

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A desperate young woman in Southern California sits down to write a letter to a man she’s never met—a choice that will forever change both their lives.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Infertility

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter

As a photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City’s elite: snapping photos of their children’s birthday parties, transforming images of stiff hugs and tear-stained faces into visions of pure joy, and creating moments these parents long for.

But when Delta is hired for Natalie Straub’s eleventh birthday, she finds herself wishing she wasn’t behind the lens but a part of the scene―in the Straub family’s gorgeous home and elegant life… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Pregnancy
Miscarriage
Infertility
Stalking

Hearts Like Hers by Melissa Brayden

Hearts Like Hers by Melissa Brayden

All work and no play has Autumn Primm in the market for a little excitement. Her Venice Beach coffee shop, The Cat’s Pajamas, is her pride and joy. While she doesn’t mind the long hours, she finds herself staring dreamily out the window, imagining the life she’s yet to lead. The time has come to take off the apron and see what the world has in store. Kate Carpenter needs to get away. And quick. A small-town firefighter, Kate’s been crowned a local hero for reasons she can’t quite get behind. An open highway and some time off have her fleeing the scene to sunny California.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment & neglect
Fertility treatments
Grief & loss depiction
Death of parents mentioned
Fire mentioned

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

Poppy Lane is keeping secrets. Her powerful gift has earned her membership in the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals, but she must keep both her ability and her alliance with the Society from her husband, Winston. Yet when Winston is brutally attacked by a werewolf, Poppy’s secrets are revealed, leaving Winston’s trust in her as broken as his body. Now Poppy will do anything to win back his affections . . .

Winston Lane soon regains his physical strength but his face and heart still bear the scars… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Antiziganism
Sexism
Rape, off-page
Physical child abuse recounted
Infertility mentioned
Pregnancy
Smoking
Drugging
Scars
Decapitation
Death of a mother by murder recounted
Police brutality

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…

Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Slut-shaming
Rape
Parental abandonment
Spousal abandonment due to infertility
Graphic physical injuries
Death of a friend

Grace by Victoria Scott

Grace by Victoria Scott

Nineteen-year-old Michelle has had a tough life, to say the least. Then she gets pregnant. She is convinced she would be a terrible mother but having grown up in care, she cannot bring herself to subject her child to the same fate. Amelia and her husband have dreamed of having a family for years, but have lost all hope after the worst kind of tragedy. Then they are offered the chance to adopt baby Grace, and it feels like they finally have everything they’ve ever wanted… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse & violence
Attempted suicide
Drug abuse
Infertility
Stillbirth